one bad dream,

one sad scene,

is there sense in anything?

story time,

babies whine,

mom and dad can't find the time?
 

hide in bed,

wake the dead,

pills become the food we're fed?

sip on gin,

fake a grin,

reality threw up again.

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  FYI: Some Reality Quotes for Wholesome Thought

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
  - Gautam Buddha

• “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
  - George Bernard Shaw
  

• The power of imagination makes us infinite."
  -John Muir
  

• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
  - Pamela Vaull Starr
  

• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
  - Zig Ziglar
  

• "First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do."
  -Epictetus